PR is just to measure the importance of your URL or webpage, in a long term period.. Yes, it helps SEO, but there are LOTS of other factors to count..
You can have a domain with PR 10 but if your domain and pages are not indexable how will it help in SEO ?
PR has nothing to do with SERPS...you might have high pr yet be out ranked in the search results by lower pr sites
Well Ill play the other side... PR does have some to do with SEO. I mostly disagree but here is a way it could. Im saying it does for the main reason of link exchanges. There is no doubt that a majority of webmasters base their link exchanges around PR. The more relevant links you get the better you do in SERPS. But that is a stretch.
By SEO, do you mean attaining a high page rank for your site? If so, PR is important and getting links from high PR sites are also important. By SEO if you mean to get on top of search results for your keyword, then PR is not that important. Good content and links from relevant sites are important. Just my humble opinion.
I agree with that, Aaron. Unless Google is lying in its own publications, they do factor PageRank into the search results. See http://www.google.com/technology/ But two questions come to mind: 1) The link above was published by Google in 2004. How valid is its content in almost-2007? 2) Is PR a significant factor in search engine results, or is it a fairly small factor? In any case, it is some factor, so why ignore it, as some do? P.S. Those who assert that PR has zero influence on search engine rankings are saying so in direct contradiction of Google's own statements on the issue.
PR matters, but only a bit. PR weighs all links based only on link-popularity. For SEO factors like: which type of site links (is it related), what kind of link (is the link-text relevant) are very important. But since we can't really measure the second, the first is an approximation of that. In other words: high PR sites are more likely to have relevant links to their site then low-pr sites. Unless of course a high percentage of those links are bought or sitewides etc.
That is indeed the conventional wisdom on this forum. It is possibly true. But it is possibly false, and PR may matter more than "a bit". Unless we are Google engineers, we don't really know enough to declare with any confidence whether Google strongly values PR or whether it is just minor to them.
PR is important if you sell links, otherwise rankings in SE is what really matters. And how much traffic those rankings give is most important.
Hi Everybody, this is my interpretation. I am sure your site's PR helps a little bit in ur ranking in SERPs, but it is only a small fraction becos there are 100+ more other factors that will determine your ranking in SERPs. What i m sure of is, if you have got high PR inbound links pointing to ur site, it will definitely help you to get indexed faster, ( if you just launched the site ), as these pages that point to your site are considered high authority sites ( PR5 and above ) according to the PR technology explanation ( interpreted by me ).. . Which means, SE should see u as more relevant to that subject matters, and give you a high rank on SERPs.. Hence indirectly, i believe that getting high PR links can help in high rank in SERPs, but again, it is just one fraction of 100+ other factors.. MErry Xmas.